AMMAN, Jordan – There is room for the federal government to expand its efforts to help train Kurdish forces battling the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Canada’s ambassador to Iraq says.

While the Kurds want the ongoing special forces training to continue, they are asking for help in other areas, Bruno Saccomani said Tuesday in an interview with The Canadian Press from his home base in Jordan.

“Something that I’m very proud that they are asking for is police and firefighter training, which is something Canada can do,” Saccomani said.